ARE YOU SLEEPING

(Reid Series Fic #4)

SUMMARY: Reid's having trouble sleeping and snaps at Morgan. Morgan answers back in a big brother manner.

BETA: Eagle Eyes

WARNING: Contains Spanking

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Criminal Minds or CBS

A/N: Special thanks to my wonderful beta!

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PROLOGUE:

"You know, this is why I don't tell anyone anything!" Reid spit out. "Every time I do it comes back and bites me."

"Look Reid, they had to know. Hotch and Gideon…" Morgan started.

"You told Gideon too!" Reid shouted, his eyes bulging. The thought of Hotch knowing was bad enough but Gideon knowing.

"They can help you," Morgan insisted. "They understand what you're going through."

Reid stopped listening to the older man. He was angry…no, he was pissed. He had, after much debate, confided in Morgan about having nightmares, some related to cases they'd worked on.

Their talk had been interrupted by another teammate but Reid had hoped to discuss the nightmares again. The next thing he knew Hotch was talking to him about said nightmares.

Reid couldn't stop the feeling of betrayal from entering into his body. He hadn't wanted the two supervisors to know. He didn't want them to think he was weak and now it was too late.

Of course they didn't think he was weak. After Reid had blown Hotch off the older agent had gone to Gideon and insisted that he talk to the younger man. Gideon had agreed.

Which is why he pretended to sleep and waited to see what Reid would do on the flight home; Reid never even closed his eyes. Gideon talked to him and when they got back insisted that Reid stay with him.

Three days later Reid smiled and insisted he was fine. Gideon let him go back to his own apartment reluctantly.

As he laid down the first night back he took a deep breath. He murmured quietly, "There's nothing to be afraid of…"

ONE WEEK LATER

Reid ran as fast as he could. He could hear the sobs. 'Please let me be fast enough,' he pleaded silently. A shot of adrenaline ran through Reid's body as a scream echoed through the dark.

It was a few minutes later when he realized he could no longer hear or see anyone from his team. Despite the situation he stopped and looked around.

"Gideon," He called, starting to feel panicked, "Hotch!"

There was no response and Reid had to fight the feeling of utter terror from taking over as the darkness settle further in.

"Gideon," He called again.

There was again no response save for a scream that filled the night air. Reid's heart pounded in his ears.

He took off running towards the sound of the scream. No matter how fast or how far he ran he could find no one.

Another scream caused Reid to veer to the left. He didn't pay attention to where he was going and fell down a ravine.

Reid's fall was cut short and he was momentarily relieved. He tried to stand but couldn't. He felt his stomach which was starting to hurt. He felt wetness on his fingertips. He brought his hands up and in the moonlight saw red.

'Gideon…please find me', Reid pleaded to himself, his body too weak to yell.

Reid's eyes closed, he was too tired to stay awake…too tired to keep fighting. As he was finally giving in to the permanent sleep that was trying to claim him he saw something out of the corner of his eye.

"Who are you?" he slurred.

"It doesn't matter anymore. I'm dead now. I'm dead because you failed Spencer…I'm dead and it's all your fault."

Reid woke with a start, sweat pouring down his face. A look at the clock let him know it was only three o'clock in the morning.

He sighed and made his way to the kitchen. It was the third nightmare he'd had that week and he knew it was pointless to try to go back to bed. He got up and made some coffee before grabbing a book and sitting down.

Five hours later he was at the BAU getting what had to be his sixth cup of coffee.

"You want some coffee with your sugar?" Morgan teased causing Reid to jump. "Sorry man didn't mean to scare you."

"You startled me Morgan, you didn't scare me." Reid sighed.

"You ok kid?" Morgan asked taking note of the dark circles under the younger man's eyes.

"I'm fine," Reid smiled as he made his way past the older man.

"You still having nightmares?" Morgan asked quietly.

"No," Reid all but snapped.

Morgan nodded his head and went to his desk. He knew that Reid wasn't sleeping; it was obvious but he wasn't sure what to do. Hotch and Gideon was out of town doing seminars for the week and had asked him to keep an eye on Reid. Morgan had agreed quickly but now wasn't so sure of himself.

'What can go wrong' he thought to himself.

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"Why don't you watch where you're going!" a voice snapped.

"What crawled up your butt?" A female voice snapped back.

The angry voices brought Morgan out of his musings and he quickly made his way over to the break room.

"What's going on?" he asked when he came upon Reid and Elle standing face to face.

"He's acting like a jerk," Elle announced before storming off in a huff.

Reid mumbled something unintelligible under his breath. Morgan turned to him and raised an eyebrow. The younger man had enough sense to at least look abashed.

"You need to get your paperwork done." Morgan informed him. "Afterwards I suggest you make up with Elle before she decides to make your life miserable."

Morgan said nothing else as he went back to his desk. Reid walked calmly to his own desk and put his coffee cup down. It was then that Morgan noticed the younger mans' hands shaking.

Morgan pretended he was busy working on his own paper work but in truth he was paying close attention to Reid who was searching in his bag for something.

He pulled out a bottle of pills and took three before putting them back. Reid slowly began to work as he waited for the pills to kick in which they did almost twenty minutes later.

"I'm hungry; you want anything? Does anyone want anything? My treat," Reid declared in a loud obnoxious voice feeling unable to sit still and wanting something to do.

A chorus of no's sounded and Reid left, coming back fifteen minutes later with sandwiches for everyone anyway.

Morgan raised an eyebrow but said nothing beyond thanking the younger agent for the food. It wasn't until an hour had past by that Morgan's suspicion peaked.

Reid was not known for sitting still but the amount of energy he had was high for even him. After the tenth time of Reid all but running out of the bullpen on small unimportant errands, Morgan had had enough.

"Why don't you sit still," He snapped.

"Sorry," Reid gave him a sheepish smile.

Reid's attempts to be still lasted all of ten minutes before he started to do circles around the bullpen.

"Damn it Reid," Morgan snapped, "sit down."

I don't have to; I can do whatever I want. If you don't like my moving around then make me stay still if you can! Reid snapped back causing everyone within hearing to gasp.

Morgan bit back his temper but Reid couldn't seem to shut his mouth.

"You think you're so big. You think you can tell me what to do. Well, you can't. I'm a grown man and I'm not hurting anyone! I'm doing my job, what are you complaining about? I would think you'd be grateful that I'm taking care of everything instead of just sitting around and doing nothing!"

He went on and on until Morgan feared he'd hit him.

"Go home," Morgan finally ordered.

"What?" Reid inquired not believing what he was hearing.

"Go home," Morgan repeated. "You are done here for the day. I'll stop by and check on you later."

Reid grabbed his stuff and stomped out of the bullpen. "I can't believe this. This is just bullshit. I can't believe I'm being sent home like a schoolboy. I don't get it. I just don't understand why you got a bug up your ass!"

Reed slammed out of the office and headed home.

Morgan knew he had to check on the younger man but for now he had to calm down.

Slowly the older agent did calm down and after work slowly made his way to Reid's apartment. One of the many questions he wanted to know was what Reid had taken. And he was going to find out the answer one way or the other.